D&D 5E (2024) I love the new changes to Paladin

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Paladin is now dead to me. I don't mind limiting Ds to 1/turn, but making it a spell and costing a BA destroys so much versatility with their core class defining ability.

I don't see how it destroys versatility.

Before it was the only thing paladins did. Now they have good reason to use any of the different smites.